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In a scene from a movie, a nearsighted character removes his eyeglasses and uses them to focus the nearly parallel rays of the sun to start a fire. What is physically wrong with this scene?

a. Parallel rays cannot be focused.
b. A fire can only be started if the image is virtual.
c. The eyeglasses have converging lenses and cannot be used to focus parallel rays.
d. Sunlight cannot be used to start a fire.
e. The eyeglasses have diverging lenses and cannot be used to focus parallel rays.

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Step-by-step explanation:

Here, the nearsighted character uses concave lens in his eyeglasses, conacave lenses are diverging lens, so they cannot focus the parallel rays of sun and the fire is started when the parallel rays are focused, so the fire does not start

Physically wrong with this scene is E) The eyeglasses have diverging lenses and cannot be used to focus parallel rays.

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